The DeepSight Threat Analyst Team is constantly monitoring honeypotstermed “crawlers”, which are designed to crawl the Internet looking formaliciously-crafted web pages. These crawlers emulate users surfing theInternet with various browsers that may be susceptible to client-sideexploits hosted on Webpages. With the crawlers, we capture a lot of therun-of-the-mill malicious code using legacy web vulnerabilities.Malware authors especially like to spread using the (Microsoft MDAC RDS.Dataspace ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability BID 17462).
But among the legacy attacks, we run into much more interestingcompromises that ironically still install some of the same old malwarevariants. One of these interesting compromises was encountered on May8, 2007. A URL was distributed that was designed to look like itbelonged to the Halifax Online financial institute. However, theresulting site looked only...
